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French interior minister Gérald Darmanin and Pau mayor François Bayrou arrive at the Isard COS welcome centre for asylum seekers (Cada), where an official was stabbed to death by a Sudanese man whose asylum application had just been refused. IMAGES
Police stand guard at the scene after a French police officer was killed during an anti-drug operation in Avignon. IMAGES
French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin arrives at a police station in Nîmes to meet police officials, following the deaths of a 10-year-old child and an 18-year-old teenager, in suspected drugs-related violence. IMAGES
Thousands of people took to the streets of Nanterre, in the western suburbs of Paris, on Thursday to pay tribute to a 17-year-old French teenager killed by the police during a traffic stop, as anger showed no sign of abating. The victim's mother, perched on a van and wearing a "Justice for Nahel" T-shirt, opened the demonstration, followed by hundreds of participants grouped behind a banner bearing the same slogan. IMAGES
On the base of the GIGN, the gendarmerie's elite tactical unit, in Versailles-Satory, near Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron posthumously awarded the Legion of Honour to Major Arnaud Blanc, an elite French gendarme who was killed in French Guiana, an overseas territory of France in South America, while taking part in an operation to combat illegal gold mining. IMAGES